Birth date:
1697
Death date:
1743
Birth town:
Country:
England
Richard Savage's main claim to fame was Samuel Johnson's biography which claimed that he was as illegitimate child descended from a noble line forced into poverty and misery by a mother whose sole aim and purpose in life was his destruction, Savage was a friend of Johnson's but this biography is disbelieved by most scholars and now has been discredited.
Richard Savage wrote two poems; The Bastard (1728) and The Wanderer (1729), and two comedies.
In 1727 he killed a man in a tavern brawl and was sentenced to death but was later pardoned. He died in poverty.
Poems by this Poet
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| Poem | Post date | Rating |
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| Prologue, Spoken at the Revival of Shakspere's King Henry VI | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| Apology to Brillante, For Having Long Omitted Writing in Verse, An | 5 September 2014 |
No votes yet |
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| First, let me view what noxious nonsense reigns | 29 November 2013 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| Epitaph on Mrs. Jones | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| E Graeco Ruf | 5 September 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| A poem, Sacred to the Glorious memory of King George | 30 July 2013 |
(1 vote) |
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| The Friend, an Epistle to Aaron Hill, Esq. | 29 November 2013 |
(1 vote) |
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| Volunteer Laureat, The. A Poem on Her Majesty's Birth-Day, 1732-3 | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| A Poem To The Memory of Mrs. Oldfield | 30 July 2013 |
(1 vote) |
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| Epistle to Damon and Delia | 29 November 2013 |
(1 vote) |
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